I'm so glad I knew what bemused meant. Thinking misle was a word has really scarred me.

I don't have the steel to tattoo my wrist. I originally though that's where I'd have my first one, and cover it for business when needed, but I'm way too scattered for that. I'll be sticking to torso, because when that shows in a work context I'm already in all sorts of trouble.

All that having been said, cool tat, meara!

But if this many fairly well-read people all had the same wrong definition of "bemused," doesn't this kind of become a prescriptivist vs. descriptivist thing?

I knew bemused wasn't the same as amused, but quizzically! Like ita, though, I thought misled was "mizzled" for the longest time, when I was young. I actually wish mizzled was a word.

'Course, once in high school I also spelled segue as segueway, since I'd only ever heard it spoken. Oops.

if this many fairly well-read people all had the same wrong definition of "bemused," doesn't this kind of become a prescriptivist vs. descriptivist thing?

By "this many" we're up to, what, five? Who knows--maybe less well people (and they do have numbers) know what it means justs fine.

OK. Merriam-Webster has "to cause to have feelings of wry or tolerant amusement" as its third definition. I feel less crazy now.

I knew what bemused meant (and the shades of meaning around it), but I don't think it's a big deal to have confused it a little. Lots of times we learn words through context in books, and if we never actually look up the word it's easy to get ideas about their meanings that are slightly off the actual definition. I've discovered plenty of words that I didn't have quite right once I looked them up.

Families are so weird. I'm staying with my Dad's sister and she does not get along with either of her sister-in-laws who are also out here (one lives here and one is visiting).

I feel kinda stuck in between everyone. Playing peacemaker. Not that there is open warfare - it is much more subtle than that - but I'm still in the middle.

Tomorrow we are going to Wet N Wild...not that I brought my swim suit or would be seen in public in it even if I had...but hey, more time with the cousins.

I think we need Erinaceous in here for a consult. Stat.

Whoa! meara, representin'. Very cool.

Where did you have it done and did you like the service?

I'd like to get my existing tattoo embellished. Every time I approach someone who has ink I like for a referral, their work was done somewhere not here.

I'm listening to The Pogues. This was possibly not the best music choice for a night when I was already a little depressed. Now I'm more depressed and I want to go to Ireland. (Specifically Galway. Was there a few years ago, and had an immediate "Yeah, this could be me" reaction to the place. I loved all of Ireland, but Galway in particular was the place where I felt like I didn't want to leave.)